Was the Beatitudes Invocation at the Inaugural a Rebuke to Donald Trump?

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When Jesus talked about the qualities that made people “blessed,” he probably was not thinking about someone like Donald Trump.Photo: Carl Heinrich Bloch

Typically listeners don’t pay much attention to the religious invocations delivered at events like today’s inauguration. And typically those invocations shower down specific blessings on the specific politician being honored, deserved or not.

But then there was the invocation at today’s inauguration, delivered by Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, an evangelical Latino who has occasionally been critical of Donald Trump. He came to the podium and simply read the Beatitudes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: